By Missy Watts
 Summer is almost here and soon the kids will be out of school. It’s time to start thinking about summer fun for your family. This special section of the magazine is all about kids! In this issue, we provide you with a story on one family’s battle with Type 1 Diabetes, kid-approved restaurants and local family-friendly entertainment destinations. We hope you and your family have the happiest, healthiest, most memorable summer ever!
Pamplin Historical Park’s
History Day Camps
804-861-2408
www.pamplinpark.org/day_camp.html
Three-day camps for boys and girls ages eight to 11 years of age are held on site at the park. Campers experience life both as a farmer/civilian and Civil War soldiers leading up to a mock-battle. Camp dates this year include June 16-18; June 23-25; July 7-9; July 28-30 and August 4-6. Cost is $100.
Great Wolf Lodge
800-551-WOLF
www.greatwolf.com
A great place to visit during summer or winter, this resort offers both indoor and outdoor water parks. The lodge offers two restaurants, MagiQuest and an animated Clock Tower as you enter the lobby. Kids of all ages are sure to enjoy their stay at the Great Wolf Lodge.
Swader’s Sports Park
4725 Whitehill Boulevard
Prince George • 804-733-3700
www.swaders.com
Swader’s offers a 38,000 square-foot facility
housing a large selection of entertainment options including a Lasertron laser tag center, arcade bowling, state-of-the-art arcade room, snack bar and meeting room for business functions. Rooms are also available for birthday
parties. Outdoors there’s batting cages, 36-hole miniature golf, a driving range and two go-kart tracks. Golf lessons are also available.
The Bowling Alley
2237 Boulevard
Colonial Heights • 804-526-3862
If you like to bowl, The Bowling Alley in Colonial Heights has some deals for you! On Tuesdays from 5 p.m. to close, and Fridays from 1 p.m. to close, bowlers can bowl all the games they want for $1 per game and $1 to rent shoes. On Wednesdays bowlers can bowl and enjoy lunch all for only $10 per person (shoe rental not included) from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. and 3 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Swift Creek Mill Playhouse Summer Camp
17401 Jefferson Davis Highway
Colonial Heights • 804-748-5203
www.swiftcreekmill.com
Does your child enjoy acting? If so, the theater offers summer drama camps – 2 one-week classes (June and July) and a new two-week class in August that will end with a performance
you won’t want to miss!
Passages Adventure Camps
804-897-8283 x310
www.peakexperiences.com
Offering fun learning experiences for boys and girls ages five years to 17. Children five through seven years old attend Base Camp located at Peak Experiences. Children eight to 17 years of age attend Passages Adventure Camps at Belle Isle. Voted Richmond’s Best Day Camp.
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